Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
The march of the human mind is slow.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.